Here’s what the kids are up to these days

It’s that time of year when the heat is so unbearable, air conditioners tend to start going out across the city. So naturally, we headed to a swelteringly humid Replay Wednesday night to check out what the kids are doing these days (and what the scene will sound like in a couple of years).

We missed Sadisfied’s very quick set (darn!), but got a glimpse of what the future in punk and garage rock looks like. Like many of today’s newer bands (such as SWMRS, FIDLAR, and Dune Rats), today’s teen rockers are “throwing it back” to 90’s punk and grunge sounds. Think Nirvana meets Blink-182.

Alien Youth are everything you’d want in a band of scruffy teenagers. They’re unruly, fast, Descendents-worshipping animals. Oh, and they’re loud (so loud). The musicians in Alien Youth have a little more experience than their peers, having played in bands before coming together for this act. If no one had told us they were around 19, we would have never known. Because their shredding and screams come off more experienced than most musicians that age.

Don’t let the beginning of this clip fool you. They kick it into gear at about 40 seconds in:

Glue Chords

Glue Chords came off as a slightly milder version of Bummer, but with a heavy Nirvana influence on the vocals (you’ll hear it on the choruses). Just when we thought the vocalist didn’t scream enough, he laid into his roars even more.

Glue Chords are appropriately fast, but we’re willing to bet they’ll eventually play faster. They’d pair well with WIDES, Bummer, and Mace Mouth. They’ve definitely got the grunge thing down, a trait many of today’s youngest bands are familiarizing themselves with.

Delhi 2 Dublin is a live-electronic, bhangra, hip-hop, world-pop, hybrid act whose concerts have been likened to '90 minutes of freebasing joy'. Famous for their energy onstage, the four member crew has played over 100 shows a year for the last decade at festivals like Electric Forest (USA), Woodford Folk (Australia) and Bali Spirit Festival (Indonesia). Connecting roots to the future, D2D features a heavy electronic backbone with live traditional Indian instruments (dhol, tabla), fiddle, and the stunning punjabi-english vocals of frontman Sanjay Seran. Their latest release 'We're All Desi' sees the notorious genre smashers continue to evolve into fresh sonic territory. Teaming up with producer Nick Middleton (The Funk Hunters), the result is a battle call for a quickening world - more truth, more smiles… and a lot more bass.